<b>*A New York Times Notable Book of the Year*</b><br><br><b>* A Washington Post Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction) *</b><br><br><b>* A Kirkus Best Book of the Year*<br><br>"Jo Becker has written a riveting history of one of America's great court cases. She captures our struggle for freedom and its epic sweep just perfectly. Future generations will turn to her book to understand Proposition 8 from its inception its journey to the Supreme Court, along with special insights into the remarkable DOMA victory led by the legendary Edie Windsor."--David Mixner, LGBT Activist and Author of <i>Stranger Among Friends</i> and <i>Brave Journeys: Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage </i> </b><br><br><b> "[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train... Becker's most remarkable accomplishment is to weave a spellbinder of a tale that, despite a finale reported around the world, manages to keep readers gripped until the very end." --The Washington Post</b><br><br>A groundbreaking work of reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker,<i> Forcing the Spring </i>is the definitive account of five remarkable years in American civil rights history, when the United States experienced a tectonic shift on the issue of marriage equality. Focusing on the historic legal challenge of California's ban on same-sex marriage, Becker offers a gripping, behind-the scenes narrative told with the lightning pace of a great legal thriller. Taking the reader from the Oval Office to the Supreme Court ruling, from state-by-state campaigns to an astounding shift in national public opinion, <i>Forcing the Spring</i> is political and legal journalism at its finest.
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A thrilling ride along the arc of justice
This is an utterly thrilling book. Heart-poundingly page-turning. You laugh, you cry, you learn, you feel. Even though you know the ending, you read every word! Beautifully written story about the Prop 8 trial in CA that landed in the Supreme Court. The entire panoply of arguments that had ever oppressed LGBT folks was put on trial in Judge Walker's courtroom, and artfully decimated by experts in history, psychology, sociology, economics.... Never has a movement, an entire movement, been put on trial before! It's a triumph to get to read it in vivid detail....The characters come alive, from the 4 brave plaintiffs to the bipartisan legal team of David Boies and Ted Olson,with help from Terry Stewart, to the political/PR campaign strategist (now CEO of Human Rights Campaign) Chad Griffin, to gay/HIV/AIDS activist Cleve Jones and LA "Milk" producer Bruce Cohen. You get to know the team that made history and helped the marriage equality movement move forward. Yes, it wasn't as big a legal victory, ultimately, as the DOMA case; yes, the historic context is missing of a million LGBT and allies in the streets in Nov 2008 outraged by injustice of Prop 8. So what? It's not THE book; it's A book -- and it's worth buying, reading, giving to all your friends for June LGBT Pride Month. It's a WOWIE book. (And I'm a mjorly finicky reader!) It's a courtroom thrilled; it's a morality drama; it's a Pulitzer Prize winner's passionate account of a new piece of American history. It's amazing. Read it yourself and see! Read more
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